Its very funny to me that I only learned about Invidious recently because youtube is trying to take it down. I will never open youtube ever again. Ive been using addblock/tracking blockers for a decade at this point but now I don’t even have to look at their shitty website with its ever degrading interface.

You can’t stop the signal. Fuck you Google.

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works
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    I run my own invidious instance locally, I really hope G! doesn’t manage to shut down the main project. Don’t have the link handy, but on Invidious’s Github page in the issue tracker the author basically says that the email they got from G! was invalid because the project isn’t using the G! API and is instead essentially scraping the website and no terms were explicitly agreed to by them. Don’t know if that will hold up legally, but it doesn’t seem like the author is kowtowing to G! at this point at least. And since hearing the story then I’ve gotten 3 software updates if that’s any indication about the inertia of the project.

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      I mean if absolute worst comes to worst, the main project goes down a fork goes up and people just move over. I also host my own instance so itll live forever til they break it with an update. And hell, Vanced still works so… shrug